20 & 21 August, Ancient Theatre of Milos
Production: Athanasia Kanellopoulou Performing Arts
Genre: Dance
Time: 19:00
Duration: 50′
Pre-booking for 20th August
Pre-booking for 21st August
A work that attempts to explore the question of collective memory, the way History stands not only on the experience of the past, but also of the present. In a historical path, that it is unclear whether it is linear or circular, bodies progressively learn how to handle the fragility of coming together and the search for new land.
Concepts such as uprooting, alienation, violent expatriation, rupture of the sense of “belonging” and identity, constantly recur and alternate with each other.
A thread from yesterday to today, where collective memory meets the personal, lived history, the locus of the body and its claims. Perhaps one should undergo many small, successive deaths, wander beyond the boundaries and the dividing lines that exist mostly inside them, to manage to seek a redemptive utopia, an “elsewhere”, a new place.
Creative team
Concept, choreography, direction: Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Original music composition: Konstantina Polychronopoulou
Choreographer’s assistant: Vassiana Skopetea
Sets, costumes: Sotiris Melanos
Scientific research: Vasilis Paggos, Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Photography, video: Xenia Tsilochristou, Stratos Tsialikis
Production assistant: Filio Louvari
Graphic designer: Maria Christopoulou
Narrator: Elena Topalidou
Performers: Vassiana Skopetea, Maria Fountouli, Lia Chamilothori, Matina Kostiani, Athanasia Kanellopoulou
The performance features an excerpt from K. H .Myris’ poem “I stahti poy taxideve” (The travelling ash).